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The field of psychology also began to

grapple with the pressure to project

confidence. In the 1920s an influential

psychologist named Gordon Allport created

a diagnostic test of “Ascendance-

Submission” to measure social dominance.

“Our current civilization,” observed

Allport, who was himself shy

and reserved, “seems to place a premium

upon the aggressive person, the ‘gogetter.’

” In 1921, Carl Jung noted the

newly precarious status of introversion.

Jung himself saw introverts as “educators

and promoters of culture” who

showed the value of “the interior life

which is so painfully wanting in our

civilization.” But he acknowledged that

their “reserve and apparently groundless

embarrassment naturally arouse all

the current prejudices against this

type.”

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